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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Star Vampire from RAFM

After
far too much hassle I finally got the last missing figures from RAFM and their
two terribly late and missmanaged kickstarters. Well, it was mostly everything but they failed sending one of
the missing figures - after I had waited for three months for them to even acknowledge
that they had read my mails to them (one mail per month and not a peep) and
they then sent two of three missing minis. Annoying and certainly a company that won’t
see me as a customer in the future but I do have quite a lot of unpainted resin and metal from them.

Anyway,
one of the minis I got from their Cthulhu kickstarter was this one, a Star Vampire. A very strange
creature that I wasn’t even certain I would paint. I let my daughter pick monsters
and characters now and then for me to paint just for the fun of it and this was the
first of the monsters. Well timed as it turned out.

This
is actually a four-part metal model, but I skipped the strange arms that came with it
and just pinned and glued the tentacle-foot-thingie in place and did a rather fast
paintjob. It’s also pinned to the transparent base from Sally 4th.

It
saw action in yesterday’s Pulp Alley game, of which you will learn more
shortly.

My rating system

5 - A masterpiece. You have to read/see/visit.4 - Really good. Strongly recommended it if it is a subject of interest, and probably worth reading/seeing/visiting if not.3 – It’s OK. If it’s a subject you’re interested in, it’s probably worth reading/seeing/visiting. Otherwise you can probably skip it.2 - Well, not really... If it’s your subject you could possibly find something in it worth your while. Otherwise stay clear.1 - Stay clear. This is a waste of your time.